The prize, endowed by Mo Ibrahim, a Sudan-born telecommunications billionaire, is intended to reward democratically elected African leaders who retire voluntarily at the conclusion of their mandated terms after displaying strong qualities of governance and leadership.
Prosecutors offered Blount a plea that would carry a mandated term of at least eighteen years; if he didn't take it, they said, they would bring additional charges.
What was needed to rescue the republic, Gingrich declared, was the end of the forty-year control of Congress by the Democratic Party; the weakening of congress itself (through constitutionally mandated term limits and spending controls); rejection of Clinton administration policies; and the passage of ten legislative proposals, most of them controversial and some apparently unconstitutional.
Administration officials continued to press today for a single resolution mandating tough terms for United Nations weapons inspectors, as well as clear authorization for military action if Mr. Hussein is in defiance.
It would also create a new charge for people found driving with extremely high blood-alcohol counts and increase penalties for repeat offenders, mandating prison terms or community service.
But the lessons of the Dupree case cry out for mandating long-term storage of DNA evidence nationwide, and reform of patently unjust identification methods.
It struck down laws mandating long-term retention of consumers' telecommunications data.
It also mandates prison terms for violators.
From just over 300,000 inmates in state and federal prisons in 1978 the population has exploded to 1.57m today, the product of policies like "zero tolerance" and "three-strikes" which mandated jail terms for certain offences and lengthened sentences.
He formed a distressingly limited view of the nation's narcotics problem, which, in 1973, led to the "Rockefeller drug laws," legislation that mandated prison terms of fifteen years to life for possessing or selling even small amounts of "hard" drugs.
